A hard landing awaits Ireland after Enda’s Ryanair stunt

AS acts of contrition go, it was as pointless as it was insincere.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny felt our pain by making the ultimate sacrifice — travelling Ryanair.

Well, that was the pre-flight hype anyway, as a bemused public wondered if Enda would splash out on priority boarding or stand stoically in ‘the other Q’ for his flight to Marseilles — would he splurge out on a luggage fee, or could the Taoiseach turn up at the meeting of European centre-right leaders with a battered carry-on bag and some in-flight duty free with which to woo Angela Merkel?